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“Time Banks” are a wonderful social development. 

Rising a few years ago, they are catching on quickly in cities nationwide.

Oh, they’re not for everybody. At least ~ not yet.

They make too much sense to be appreciated in our era of rising hysteria.

A time bank, you see, is based on the premise that no one’s day is worth a thousand times more than someone else’s.

No one’s.

If what you’re good at is writing resumes, the two hours you spend doing that for someone else can be traded ~ straight across ~ for any other service in the bank’s pool. Someone to walk your dog. Someone to advise you on the law.

Someone to babysit your child.

Someone to clean your toilet.

No, they’re not for everyone.

Not yet.

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Recorded Reading (0:55): https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/dcovxiafhs2new4l4491m/Throw-You-Out.mp3?rlkey=zb4mlnw1goa8ev7ukil6xs4fc&dl=0

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Throw You Out

All this malice
All this war
We don’t even understand
What we’re really fighting for

So much sorrow
Everywhere
This kind hidden over here
That kind hidden over there

Lonely people
Passing by
Each doing their very best
While “in public” not to cry

None of us
Reaching out
To find out what that suffering
Is genuinely all about

If we knew
We’d make a fuss:
Most of it is
Caused by us

We could keep
Each other warm
When the skies are
Full of storm,

But forget
What storm’s about —
Instead, we
Throw each other out

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Homeless until removal of the stalker/targeter/vandal/arsonist following her allows her to approach any landlord ~ even for a private parking space ~ this poet presently lives under perpetual threat of towing with all possessions should her 23-year-old van stop running for any reason.

She is badly in need of a modest reserve with which to field any emergency which might occur.

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